Retirement health report

Female pensioners in England can now expect to live to almost 77 before experiencing serious health problems, according to research from the Office for National Statistics. It said that women in England who turned 65 between 2008 and 2010 could expect another 11.8 years of healthy life expectancy on average. They will then experience eight years of poorer health, until death at 85.8 years. Their male counterparts of the same age are not doing much worse: for them, another 10.3 years of good quality life await them, taking them to 75.3 years, before dying at the average age of 83.2 years. Source: Daily Telegraph, Page: 10